Tayyar.
Portrait of Driss Lachgar MA flag

MA flag Morocco Party leader

Driss Lachgar

إدريس لشكر
Party leader In opposition Verified

First Secretary of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) since 2012 — the historic Moroccan left party that led the 1998 Alternance government and has spent the years since reckoning with the institutional cost of that experiment. The party sits in opposition to Akhannouch's coalition. Lachgar himself is a lawyer who has served in earlier USFP-led governments.

Country
Morocco
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Party leader

Position

No party affiliation or source documents on file yet, so no individual position is assigned.

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Driss Lachgar [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/driss-lachgar-ma
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Driss Lachgar." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/driss-lachgar-ma.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-driss-lachgar-ma,
  title     = {{Driss Lachgar}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/driss-lachgar-ma},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.